Brain’s ‘memory center’ needed to recognize image sequences but not single sights
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26 July 2021Brain’s ‘memory center’ needed to recognize image sequences but not single sights
A new MIT study of how a mammalian brain remembers what it sees shows that while individual images are stored in the visual cortex, the ability to recognize a sequence of sights critically depends on guidance from the hippocampus, a deeper structure strongly associated with memory but shrouded in mystery about exactly how.
